In honour of Mother's Day... Adrian Sutherland & Midnight Shine have released a very special music video that celebrates Sisters – made from photos that fans and friends sent in. Sister Love was edited by Bethany Fontaine, an amazing young Indigenous editor from Winnipeg – the same editor behind the Heart of Gold and Lonely…
Politician Man, the music video for Adrian Sutherland's debut single, has been nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award at this year’s Yorkton Film Festival, which will take place in May with no filmmakers present for the first time in the festival’s 73-year history. Sutherland’s ‘protest song for Canada’ was co-written with musical brothers Chris Gormley…
Adrian Sutherland will be joining Blackie and the Rodeo Kings next week on a tour in Southern Ontario. You can catch Adrian opening up the show in the following places: Feb 19 Old Town Hall (Waterford, Ontario, Canada)Feb 20 Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, Peterborough ONFeb 21 The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ONFeb 22 Algonquin Theatre, Huntsville ONFeb 23 Meaford…
Call it uncanny circumstances that lead to the release of a song from Adrian Sutherland. Uncanny timing, too, considering the song’s name, and the fact there was a federal election just around the corner… Politician Man, the debut single from Adrian Sutherland, is a protest song for Canada. The seeds were planted in July, when…
My sister Eva gave me this hunting drum for my 19th birthday – a long time ago! Haha. It’s a replica of the traditional Cree hunting drum that Cree hunters used over many generations to sing songs about their love and respect for the animals they hunted. Eva had it made by someone in the…
The fourth music video from Adrian Sutherland & Midnight Shine features a few firsts: it’s the first music video featuring performance footage by the full-band, and also the first video working with actors. Shot in Winnipeg over the May long weekend, Lonely Boy is about the loss of a father, says Sutherland: “This song is…
It was three years ago. I had just gotten back from my month-long annual spring hunt out on the land, during which time I had no contact with the outside world. Upon returning, the first news I heard was that there had been a stream of suicide attempts in my community of Attawapiskat – an…
The world’s youngest Water Warrior is adding her voice to those of Chelsea Jane Edwards and Adrian Sutherland to bring attention to the water crisis in First Nations across Canada. Autumn Peltier will travel to the isolated Cree community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay on Tuesday July 16th to meet with Chelsea and Attawapiskat’s youth council, in efforts to help further awareness of the issue…
With the recent release of Midnight Shine's third music video Leather Skin, the team would like to say THANK YOU to the partners involved in the video production and launch. The Canadian Council for the Arts provided funding to produce the music video. Established in 1957, the Canada Council for the Arts funds Canadian artists…
